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Modeling heat shock protein expression produced by a heat wrap.

Alfred S Song1, Kenneth R Diller

  • 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C0800, Austin, TX 78712, USA. alfred.song@mail.utexas.edu

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering
|July 31, 2009
PubMed
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Therapeutic heat wraps enhance healing by increasing blood flow and heat shock protein (HSP) expression. This study models how heat wraps affect tissue temperature and HSP levels, revealing a significant contribution to healing.

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